Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

Modernity at the Movies

Cinema-going in Buenos Aires and Santiago, 1915-1945

By Camila Gatica Mizala

A Methodological Study of Going to the Movies as Cultural and Societal Practice

The Age of Mammals

International Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century

By Chris Manias

Shows the Cultural Resonance of Mammal Paleontology from an International Perspective

Reading the Walls of Bogotá

Graffiti, Street Art, and the Urban Imaginary of Violence

By Alba Griffin

A Nuanced Study of the Complex Social Imaginary and Hegemony of Violence in Colombia

Now We Are in Power

The Politics of Passive Revolution in Twenty-first Century Bolivia

By Angus McNelly

Follows the Rise and Fall of Evo Morales and the Political and Economic Transformations of Bolivia

Mexican Icarus

Aviation and the Modernization of Mexican Identity, 1928-1960

By Peter B. Soland

An Interdisciplinary History of Aviation and Aviation Symbolism in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Building Power to Shape Labor Policy

Unions, Employer Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile

By Pablo Perez Ahumada

How Competing Interests Mobilize and Shape Labor Laws and Reform

Making the World a Better Place

African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900

By Jacqueline Jones Royster

Centers Black Women’s Discourse and Sociopolitical Action from the Nation’s Founding through the Civil War and Beyond

Pittsburgh Rising

From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

By Edward K. Muller, Rob Ruck

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh’s Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

Writing and Desire

Queer Ways of Composing

By Jonathan Alexander

Explores Writing as a Practice of Desire through an LGBTQ+ Lens

Representing the Barrios

Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas

By Rebecca Jarman

Charts the Rise of the Barrios in the Venezuelan Imagination

Capitalist Outsiders

Oil's Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela

By Leslie C. Gates

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

Iron Artisans

Welsh Immigrants and the American Age of Steel

By Ronald L. Lewis

How Skilled Welsh Workers and Managers Helped Build the American Steel Industry

Cuban Studies 52

Edited By Alejandro de la Fuente

Donora Death Fog

Clean Air and the Tragedy of a Pennsylvania Mill Town

By Andy McPhee

The Complete Story of the Worst Air Pollution Disaster in US History

The Many Voices of Modern Physics

Written Communication Practices of Key Discoveries

By Joseph E. Harmon, Alan G. Gross

A Tribute to the Communicative Practices of Physicists in the Twentieth Century

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